HUSEYIN RASIT
huseyin.rasit[at]yale.edu
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
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2020 - 2021. Predoctoral Research Fellow, International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
EDUCATION
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2014 - Present. Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, Yale University
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Dissertation: Ideology and Politics: Emergent Political Formations in the 21st-Century Middle East
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Committee: Julia Adams (Co-chair), Jonathan Wyrtzen (Co-chair), Ronald Eyerman
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2017. M.Phil., Sociology, Yale University
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Field Exam: “Revolutions and Revolutionary Struggles.” - Distinguished
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2016. M.A., Sociology, Yale University
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2011 - 2014. M.A., Political Science, Sabanci University
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Coursework completed, thesis not defended
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2004 - 2009. B.Sc. with Honors, Computer Engineering, Bogazici University
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements, State-Building, Ideologies, Middle East Studies, Political Sociology, Comparative-Historical Social Science, Social Theory
PUBLICATIONS
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2020. Rasit, Huseyin. “Competing Revolutionaries: Legitimacy and Leadership in Revolutionary Situations” – Revise and Resubmit
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2020. Rasit, Huseyin and Alexander Kolokotronis. “Decentralist Vanguards: Women’s Autonomous Power and Left Convergence in Rojava.” Globalizations 17(5):869-883.
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2020. Rasit, Huseyin. “Imperialism, Revolution, and the Desire to Lecture the Kurds: How Should We (Not) Analyze U.S.-Kurdish Relations.” Pp. 225-41 in Kurdish Autonomy and U.S. Foreign Policy: Continuity and Change, edited by V. Eccarius-Kelly and M. M. Gunter. New York: Peter Lang.
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2017. Rasit, Huseyin. “Not Another Story of Failed Liberation: Tensions in Bashur and Rojava in the Light of the Referendum,” openDemocracy
Work in Progress
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2020. Rasit, Huseyin. “Revolutionaries, Nationalists, Jihadists: Ideology and Emergent Political Formations”
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2020. Rasit, Huseyin. “An Integrated Theory of Ideology” - Article
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
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2020 - 2021. International Security Program Fellowship, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School, $34,000
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2018 - 2019. Yale MacMillan International Dissertation Research Fellowship, $18,000
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2018 - 2019. DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Research Grant, €8500
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2018. Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, $15,000 - with Jonathan Wyrtzen
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2018. U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center Grant, $10,000 – with Jonathan Wyrtzen
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2018. Yale MacMillan Center International Travel Grant, $750
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2017. Yale Graduate Student Community College Teaching Fellowship, $3000
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2017. SSHA Graduate Student Travel Award, $500
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2017. CAMP Grant, Sociology Department, Yale University, $500
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2016. Smith Richardson Foundation International Security Studies Fellowship, $3,000
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2016. Yale MacMillan Center Pre-Dissertation Grant, $2,000
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2005 - 2009. Honor Scholarship, the Office of the Prime Minister of Turkey, $20,000
HONORS
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2016 - 2018. Kanter Fellow, Rosabeth M. Kanter Fellowship, Yale University
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2011 - 2013. Teaching Fellowship, Sabanci University
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2009. Honors, Bogazici University
SELECTED CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Conference Organizer
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2018. Interdisciplinary Conference on Kurdish Politics and Societies, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Panel Organizer
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2019. “Ideologies and Political Formations.” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
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2019. “Ideologies, Political Formations, and Conflict in Kurdistan.” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
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2017. “Syrian Kurds: Contesting Boundaries.” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
Presenter
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2020. “Colonial/Imperial Gaze in Kurdish Studies.” Roundtable. Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting.
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2020. “An Integrated Theory of Ideology.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.
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2019. “A Tale of Two Kurdistans: Ideological Structures and Political Formations in Kurdistan-Syria and Kurdistan-Iraq.” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
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2019. “A Tale of Two Kurdistans: Ideological Structures and Political Formations in Kurdistan-Syria and Kurdistan-Iraq.” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
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2019. “Decentralist Vanguards: Women’s Autonomous Power and Left Convergence in Rojava.” Historical Materialism Athens Conference, Panteion University, Athens.
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2018. “Decentralist Vanguards: Women’s Autonomous Power and Left Convergence in Rojava.” Historical Materialism Annual Conference, SOAS, London.
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2018. “Decentralist Vanguards: Women’s Autonomous Power and Left Convergence in Rojava.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
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2018. “Competing Revolutionaries: Legitimacy and Leadership in Revolutionary Situations.” Comparative Historical Sociology Mini-Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
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2018. “Competing Revolutionaries: Legitimacy and Leadership in Revolutionary Situations.” Interdisciplinary Conference on Kurdish Politics and Societies, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
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2017. “Vanguards of Anti-Statism: Anarchism, Leninism, and the Ideological Search for a New Mode of Public Power in Rojava.” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
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2017. “Competing Revolutionaries: Legitimacy, Leadership, and Strategy in Revolutionary Situations.” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Montreal.
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2017. “One Ethnic Group, Two Revolutions: Kurdistan-Iraq and Kurdistan-Syria in Comparative Perspective.” Kurdish Studies Summer School, Kurdish Institute, Paris.
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2017. “One Ethnic Group, Two Revolutions: Kurdistan-Iraq and Kurdistan-Syria in Comparative Perspective.” Rethinking Revolutions Workshop, LSE, London.
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2016. “An Ethics of Violence Based on Practice: The Rojava Revolution in Syria.” Historical and Comparative Perspectives on Kurdish Politics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
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2016. “An Ethics of Violence Based on Practice: The Rojava Revolution in Syria.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.
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2016. “Collective and Discursive Identities: Toward a Realist-Constructionist Theory of Identity.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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Yale University (2016 – Present)
Instructor
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Political Sociology (Summer 2020)
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Foundations of Modern Social Theory (Summer 2018)
Teaching Fellow
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Social Policy and the Politics of Inequality in the United States (Spring 2018)
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Foundations of Modern Social Theory (Fall 2017) – Guest Lecturer
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Foundations of Modern Social Theory (Fall 2016) – Guest Lecturer
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Yale Young Global Scholars (2019)
Lead Instructor (Summer 2019)
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International Affairs and Globalization
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Politics, Law, and Economics II
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Politics, Law, and Economics III
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Gateway Community College (2017)
Part-time Acting Instructor
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Introduction to Sociology (Spring 2017)
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Sabanci University (2011 – 2013)
Teaching Fellow
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Introduction to Social and Political Sciences (Fall 2012, Spring 2013)
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Comparative Politics, Teaching Fellow (Spring 2012)
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Political Economy, Teaching Fellow (Fall 2011)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
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2019-2021. Graduate Student Coordinator of Political Violence and Its Legacies Workshop, Yale University
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2018. Organizer of Interdisciplinary Conference on Kurdish Politics and Societies. Yale University, April 6-8.
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2017. Yale Certificate of College Teaching Preparation
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2016. Philosophy of Social Sciences Graduate Student Seminar, Tacoma
NON-ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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2010 - 2011. Software Engineer, Banksoft, Istanbul, Turkey
SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY
Stata, Java, C++, C
LANGUAGES
Turkish (Native), English (Fluent), Kurdish (Intermediate)
MEMBERSHIPS
American Sociological Association, Middle East Studies Association, Social Science History Association
REFERENCES
Julia Adams
Professor of Sociology
Yale University
julia.adams[at]yale.edu
Jonathan Wyrtzen
Associate Professor of Sociology
Yale University
jonathan.wyrtzen[at]yale.edu
Ronald Eyerman
Emeritus Professor of Sociology
Yale University
ronald.eyerman[at]yale.edu
Kristin Plys
Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of Toronto, Mississauga
kristin.plys[at]utoronto.ca